Vice-Admiral Sir Ernest Augustus Taylor,

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, CVO (17 April 1876 – 11 March 1971) was a British

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officer and politician. In 1898 he married Rose Campbell.

Naval career

Taylor entered HMS Britannia in 1890 and went to sea two years later. In early May 1902, he was appointed gunnery lieutenant on the

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HMS ''Renown'', serving in the Mediterranean Squadron, and late the same year he was transferred to the armoured cruiser HMS ''Bacchante'' on her first commission in the same squadron. He was assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance from October 1911 to June 1912. In

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, he commanded the pre-dreadnought ''Queen'' and the light cruiser ''Birmingham'', and served as a flag Captain. He became Captain of the battlecruiser HMS ''Renown'' in 1919. With her, he was in 1920 in the entourage for the Prince of Wales's tours of

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Political career

He was a member of London County Council from 1925 to 1928. He was

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(MP) for Paddington South from 1930 to 1950. He won the

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as a candidate for the Empire Free Trade Crusade, retaining it in the 1931 General Election. He joined the Conservative Party after that General election.

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